Terrain Park - Crew - Mt Hutt

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NZSki is hiring a Terrain Park Crew member for Mt Hutt to help design and build safe terrain parks, maintain features, test daily, and deliver guest service. You’ll rake, shovel, salt and dye features, assess park status, set up fencing and signage, and test features. The ideal candidate blends hands-on park design or construction experience with a solid health and safety record, basic snow cat and snowmaking knowledge, and a sustainability mindset, thriving in a diverse team. Perks include uniform, a 3 Peak winter pass, transport, meals, wellbeing support, and staff discounts. To apply, highlight park construction and safety outcomes, customer service impact, and your passion for mountains aligned with NZSki values.

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Are you fuelled by a passion for the outdoors? Is there something indescribable that draws you to the mountains? Let’s chat. Joining our crew is more than just working at a ski field - it’s a lifestyle, seasonal work is a rollercoaster but it’s one that creates lasting memories that you’ll talk about for a lifetime.
Our NZSki community has been growing since 1947 and continues to offer the best experience for our crew, locals, and guests alike. Everyone at Coronet Peak, The Remarkables and Mt Hutt cares for the mountains and shares a passion for snowsports and the surrounding regions. Our success is due to our awesome customer service, first-class facilities, majestic scenery, and wild terrain.


In this role you will be assisting in the design and build of Terrain Parks that provides a safe and progressive environment for our guests. Your main responsibilities will be to maintain the parks to match the safety, progression, and aesthetic standards set in place. You will test features daily and critique the quality of each individual feature to ensure the highest quality product.

This is a front line customer service role requiring you to proactively provide guests with necessary information on the safe use of our parks.

We seek problem solvers who can maintain a high standard of work consistently throughout the season, and who can operate and communicate as part of a diverse and inclusive team.


About the Role
• raking, shovelling, and maintaining features (including salting & dyeing)
• assisting with the design and building of the Terrain Parks
• assessing open/closed status of park/features
• set-up of fencing and signage
• testing features
• delivery of awesome customer service
About You
• possess a basic knowledge of snow cat and snowmaking capabilities is an advantage
• ability to factor flow, maintenance and progression when designing Terrain Parks
• an understanding spacing and snow quantity requirements
• experience in feature design and construction (joinery, fabrication, painting)
• promoting sustainability and the efficient use of resources
• possess an excellent health and safety record and understand hazard management processes
• proactive, take responsibility for upskilling and willing to contribute to our department goals and objectives


As Kaitiaki of the mountains we have an enduring commitment to our environment, people, and communities to ensure they benefit from our presence and as proud supporters of Winter Pride we’ve pledged to continue to provide a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.

Uniform for all roles is provided (just bring your own base layers)

A few other reasons to join our Coronet Peak, The Remarkables and Mt Hutt crew:
• 3 Peak winter season pass (full time crew)
• Discounted day passes at other ski areas
• Transport to/from mountains.
• Fantastic wellbeing support for all staff
• Nutritional hot crew meals each day (discounted)
• Discounts at many local eateries, bars, breweries and retail outlets
• Discounts on mountain
• Regularly organised social activities off mountain
• Cool recognition programmes with prizes
• Earn and learn – free ski lessons (full time crew)